Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
Imelda Marcos

When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible.
Dale Earnhardt

All truth is not to be told at all times.
Samuel Butler

I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
Dana Carvey

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.
Samuel Butler

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
Samuel Butler

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!
Philip Pullman

It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.
Dawn French

I don't like drum solos, to be honest with you, but if anybody ever told me he didn't like Buddy Rich I'd right away say go and see him, at least the once.
Charlie Watts

Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.'
Sandra Bullock

The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.
Barry White

When I was 14, I thought I was the coolest kid in school because I told everyone the jokes in FHM.
Megan Fox

We were watching the first series recently, and it has a charm, a kind of amateur charm. At that point we didn't involve ourselves technically at all - we just messed about and told our jokes - and it looks a bit like that.
Jennifer Saunders

He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
Ralph Abernathy

People out there must be told about the self-loathing that follows rape and how it's the greatest breakage in divine law to mutilate themselves, as I have done.
Tori Amos

A lot of people told me that I'm committing musical suicide with my sound.
Kid Rock

Justin Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it's time to stop singing.
Bruce Willis

The doctor's name was Sylvia. I told her she'd have a problem with me because Sylvia was my mother's name.
Paul Lynde

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld